Thoughts, Findings, and Rants…

Today’s Readings

Back from a nice little holiday, rested and relaxed, so it’s a perfect time to dive right back into reading and writing!

From DudleyStorey comes this Advanced Typography and Layout Challenge. Without looking, how would you do it (be sure to read the requirements)? Once you have your idea, look at how Dudley did it; how close were you? Only change I would have made would be adding the “.” after the “No” abbr via generated-content, but then I guess you could argue whether that period lends any semantic value to the abbreviation…

When testing responsive sites, it’s important to look at it on a bunch of different screen sizes. While I don’t like the concept of designing for specific devices or screen sizes, Responsinator is a pretty nice implementation.

I would be completely lost without reminder emails! I send them to myself all the time, including in the middle of a conversation with someone, because I know if I don’t send it now, I will never remember to do what I told that person I would do… Can’t wait to try ShaunInman‘s Remind app.

I’ve written about a lot of alternative device charging options, but Modulo is possibly the slickest. The video spends far too much time trying to be cute, but you can bounce through pretty quickly to get the idea. (And while the article title mentions a hand crank capability, that isn’t mentioned anywhere in the video, so, not so sure about that…)

Are you creating bugs for yourself and your users by using event.stopPropagation(), event.preventDefault() or even return false? Appears we can do that better.